Help on sniper rifles

[Sam_G]

I have just started to upgrade my sniper rifle. I'm doing it on a small budget so laylax and PDi stuff was just too expensive.

Mine is a JG BAR-10 which is the china clone of a VSR.

I bought the upgrade set from ASPUK.co.uk for £52:

http://www.airsoftsniperparts.com/apps/webstore/products/show/2534621.

That also came with a free set of shs sears.

Bought a cylinder head (currently unfitted due to clearance issues)

http://www.airsoftsniperparts.com/apps/webstore/products/show/2953066

I had a few fitment issues but these were explained on the ASPUK website with step ny step guides on how to fix them. After few hours of playing around with it i have it firing at 495FPS. That's a jump of 100FPS for 60 quid!

My next purchase will be a new hoprubber, either a TM of 9ball, and then when i have the spare money a new barrel.

At the moment i have zero'd it to be accurate over 65 feet (length of the path running down the side of my house - yes its private)

So for £130 i have a near on 500FPS sniper rifle that is pretty dam accurate!

 

[CaptainSwoop]

I like this thread, it reminds me of the Archery Forum threads where they endlessly obsess about their bow tuning and upgrades.

When your rifle is shooting reliably and consistently stop messing around and do lots of shooting until you are equally reliable and consistent.

When you are then look at upgrades.

Upgrade one thing at a time so you can see if it makes a difference, just because you think something is an upgrade doesn't mean it will improve anything and sometimes may be a retrograde step.

Think about what you are going to change and why you are doing it and what your result will be.

 

[Ian_Gere]

Well yeah, Cap'n, but let's not discount the value of other ppl's experience. If a whole raft of ppl say that a new trigger is an upgrade, I'm not interested particularly. If 4 out of 5 ppl tell me their trigger failed in XYZ way, I believe I needn't wait to be No.5...

I think getting the basics in place is a good plan, then go 1 step @time to evaluate their effectiveness.

 

[M_P]

I like this thread, it reminds me of the Archery Forum threads where they endlessly obsess about their bow tuning and upgrades.

When your rifle is shooting reliably and consistently stop messing around and do lots of shooting until you are equally reliable and consistent.

When you are then look at upgrades.

Upgrade one thing at a time so you can see if it makes a difference, just because you think something is an upgrade doesn't mean it will improve anything and sometimes may be a retrograde step.

Think about what you are going to change and why you are doing it and what your result will be.

As a sniper rifle is a precision rifle it's pretty much a need to have well made and well constructed parts. You can use a stock one but it's pretty common knowledge that any sniper rifle needs to be well upgraded before performing at a level that is useful. Add to the fact that various parts can easily break under high fps levels there isnt a huge amount of choice in it.

In a normal AEG you'd be right but a sniper rifle is all about precision.